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UConn Health Researchers Receive a $3 1 Million Dollar Grant to Study Pandemic-Related Stress

Date Time UConn Health Researchers Receive a $3.1 Million Dollar Grant to Study Pandemic-Related Stress Damion Grasso and Margaret Briggs-Gowan developed a tool to measure pandemic-related stress. They are now applying it in a study focused on families who gave birth and are now raising infants during the pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly changed our everyday lives. For many, it has increased exposure to significant stressors as they have faced the sickness or death of loved ones, job loss, working from home, social isolation, and other impacts. UConn Health associate professors of psychiatry Damion Grasso and Margaret Briggs-Gowan have received a $3.1 million grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to study pandemic-related experiences and stress among families who have given birth during the pandemic.

UConn Researcher Finds Family Support Key to LGBTQ+ Student Wellbeing During Pandemic

UConn Researcher Finds Family Support Key to LGBTQ+ Student Wellbeing During Pandemic Support from parents is a key indicator of whether LGTBQ+ college students are experiencing higher levels of stress during the COVID-19 pandemic. Eva Lefkowitz, University of Connecticut professor of human development and family sciences, investigated the impact of COVID-19 campus closures on LGBTQ+ students. Graduate students Alyssa Clark, Rachael Farina, Veronica Hanna-Walker, Samantha Lawrence, Tracy Walters, and Yuan Zhang had active roles in the conception and execution of the study (courtesy of Eva Lefkowitz). Copy Link The COVID-19 pandemic uprooted the lives of many college students throughout the country as they were unexpectedly forced to move home when campuses closed. Many struggled with the adjustment to living with their families full time. But in some cases, LGBTQ+ students had additional concerns and challenges associated with the transition.

Ofer Harel – The Conversation

Ofer Harel, Ph.D. is a professor and Director of admission in the Department of Statistics and a (past) principal Investigator in the Institute for Collaboration on Health, Intervention, and Policy (InCHIP) at the University of Connecticut. Dr. Harel received his doctorate in statistics in 2003 from the Pennsylvania State University; where he developed his methodological expertise in the areas of missing data techniques, diagnostic tests, longitudinal studies, Bayesian methods, sampling techniques, mixture models, latent class analysis, and statistical consulting. Dr. Harel received his post-doctoral training at the University of Washington, Department of Biostatistics, where he worked for the Health Services Research & Development (HSR&D) Center of Excellence, VA Puget Sound Healthcare System, and the National Alzheimer’s Coordinating Center (NACC). Dr. Harel has served as a biostatistical consultant nationally and internationally since 1997. Through his collaborative consulting,

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